[AZ-Observing] Re: Laptop Operating Temperature
- From: "Jimmy Ray" <jimmy_ray@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:10:36 -0700
I'm the Laptop Technical Services Manager for the Arizona / New Mexico Food
Service Divisions of Shamrock Foods Company. Counting all the field sales
reps., product specialist, etc. of warehouses in Phoenix, Denver and
Albuquerque, we total 300+ units of portable computing. This doesn't take
into account the Dairy (which everyone is most familiar), any of the other
corporate entities or non-field sales related individuals, who may also
carry Laptops...
The Field Sales environment is rather hostile to Laptop equipment. The
exception being the Toshiba "Tough Book" which is at home on any military
battle field and should probably be used by us but, their not "Pretty" so we
use the Dell Latitude series. This laptop is relatively inexpensive and we
can get about three years out of them before they succumb to the rough
treatment they receive. In the mean time they get left on seats and dashes
in the summer (we did have a rep warp one once in this manor) and are
subjected to the cold winters up north. As we FedEx them everywhere, you
might imagine they get "drop Kicked" around the region quite a bit (no
offence to anyone at FedEx but I do have a size 14 boot print on the top of
a shipping box to prove it :-).
As we in the Astronomy community treat our gear like new born babies, your
laptop will probably last forever....
Jimmy Ray
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[mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stan Gorodenski
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 9:57 PM
To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Laptop Operating Temperature
Thank you Jon, Jeff, Chris, Keith, Jimmy, and Gene for your responses.
They have all be very helpful. I have nothing to worry about. All I have
to do is use the laptop and make adjustments as the problems surface.
300 in the field is a real indication. Jimmy, probably everyone knows,
but what sort of project are you involved with that uses 300 laptops?
My next question - Would I have a temperature problem if I got a
Notebook instead of a Laptop? NO! NO!, just joking.
Stan
Stan Gorodenski wrote:
>I have finally broken down and ordered a laptop from Gateway today.
>Astronomy is one of the uses I would put it to. In the process of
>verifying that the order included all the features and components in the
>quote, I just discovered the operating temperature only goes down to 41
>degrees F and only as high as 95 degrees F. Yet I know amateurs use
>laptops at night when it gets much colder than 41 degrees. Is this a
>normal operating range for laptops? How real is the 41 degree lower limit?
>Stan
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